Knitting machine Club
The Cotton Club was a concert hall and a dance hall of Harlem to New York which functioned during and after the Prohibition. Whereas the club was characterized by the best black musicians from the time such as Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, and Ethel Waters, he generally refused the entry with the blacks. During the golden age, the club was used as a smart place of appointment in the heart of Harlem, introducing regularly to Sundays the celebrities night birds such as Jimmy Lasting, George Gershwin, Al Jolson, Mae West, Irving Berlin, Moss Hart, the mayor of New York Jimmy Walker and well of others still. The champion heavy truck Jack Johnson opened the Club of Luxury to the 142ème Rue and the Lenox Avenue in Harlem in 1920. Owney Madden, a smuggler and known gangster took again the club in 1923 whereas he was imprisoned in Sing Sing and changed his name into Knitting machine Club. The club was briefly closed in 1925 because of the alcohol sale, but has réouvert without troubles later. Danceuses and stripteaseuse one occurred with the prison of Sing Sing where Owney Madden was imprisoned, until its release in 1933.
Cotton Club is also a film of Francis Ford Coppola, which offers a fictionalized history of the club in the racist context of the Thirties and the battles between Madden, Dutch Schultz, Vincent " Mad Dog" Coll, Lucky Luciano, and Ellsworth " Bumpy" Johnson. The film was attacked criticisms.
Artists and musicians who occurred with the Knitting machine Club
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